Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-02-18

HUrfcnuerS MS gun, WflngS Tie hands oil Ills
comrades. and Gftinp his leor.sta,ned nnd
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p'''' NV 'o' ''e '"'' ''"e w '"o s'"'s'
that dot tue OLD virginia hills, pulls his
grey cap over his brow and hegins the slow
! and painful ionrney. What does he find
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eager \" nnu ",' '"e welcome you h"u
lhH''y e"fne"' i''' P"yheht ior your iour
ye"'s S''r'"ce -"n't ""e' he nn", wneh
lie reaches the home he left four years be.
fure2 lie hnhs his house in ruins, his
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iroycd, his money worthless, his socinI
syatcm, fcilhnl in ils magniiicpncc, swept
nwny. Lis p,oule wi,hou law or legal
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THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED.
But what Is the sum of our work :? We
have found out that in the general sum
ming up the free negro counts more than
he did asa slave. We have planted the
school house on the hill'iop and made it
free TO white and black. We have sowed
towns aud cities in the place Of theories
aud put business above politics. Ap-
rlause We have challenged your spin
ners in Massachusetts, and your iron
makers in Pennsylvania. We have learn
ed that the S4Q0 100000 annually received
from our cotton crop will make us rich
when the supplies hat make il are home
raised. We have reduced the commercial
rate oil Interest from "A To per cent, and
are loniing per cent bonds. We have
learned that one Northern emigrant ia
worth fifty foreigners, and have smoOthed
the path 10 the souihwarl, wiped out the
place where Mason and Dixon's line used
TO be, and hung the latch.string out to you
and yours. Prolonged applause. We
have reached the point that makes per
feet harmony in every household, when
the husband cOnfes.es that the pie' which
his own wife cooks are as good as those his
mother used TO bake; and we admit the
sun shines as brightly and the moon az
softly as il did before the WAT" Laugh.
ter. We have established thrift in the
city and country. We have fallen in love
with work. We have restored comfort to
homes from which culture aud elegance
never departed. We have let economy
take root and spread among ns ss rank ~
the crab grass which sprung from Sher-
mans cavalry camp, until We are ready to
lay odds on the Georgia Yankee as lie
squeezes pure olive oil ont Of his cotton
seed, against any down easter that swapped
wooden nutmegs for flannel salsages in the
valleys Of Vermont. Above all, we know
| that we have achieved IN these "pipinu